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The other day Rick Santorum attacked President Obama for having a "phony theology," an apparent reference to the President's belief that man should do what he can, whatever he can, to protect this earth on which we all live, the earth that is, not counting the Newt Gingrich plan for lunar colonization, the only place we, our children, their children and forever into the future have to live. Santorum called this concern for a healthy planet as being a religion that puts the earth "above man." I suppose he's talking about the concern scientists and most thinking people have with...

Eric Cantor: potentially responsible for the death of school kids. That was the despicable depth to which Chris Matthews has sunk in his desperate attempt to stir up support for President Obama's latest stimulus scheme. On this afternoon's Hardball, Matthews suggested that by refusing to spend hundreds of billions on PBO's latest list of supposedly shovel-ready projects, Virginia Republican Rep. Cantor is endangering the lives of kids riding school buses across ostensibly rickety bridges in his district. The Hardball host helpfully ran a scroll of all such bridges in Cantor's district. View video here.

It’s the story that won’t die – possibly because MSNBC doesn’t want it to, since it seems that it could delegitimize the Republican Party and conservatives: Taking “fringe notions” and portraying them to be mainstream, including the issue of President Barack Obama’s citizenship. On Tuesday’s “Hardball,” host Chris Matthews led off his program and scrutinized the reasons why Speaker of the House John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor won’t condemn Republican members that question the president’s citizenship. His conclusion? Boehner and Cantor are collaborators, using the myth for political gain. “OK, you know what I want to do...

You could almost make a “Chris Matthews gaffes” highlight reel of his years as an MSNBC host. He once called West Point, site of the U.S. Military Academy, “enemy territory.” He has said President Barack Obama gave him a “thrill up his leg.” He even made an awkward pass at CNBC anchor Erin Burnett on live air. And on his Thursday show, he told Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall he was falling in love with him. But don’t let him know those gestures probably aren’t appropriate, especially for live television. ...more (w/video)...

As NewsBusters previously reported, Chris Matthews on Tuesday blamed conservative talk radio hosts Mark Levin and Michael Savage for creating the climate of hate that led to Saturday's shootings in Tucson, Arizona. On Wednesday, FBN's Don Imus and his sidekick Bernard McGuirk went after the "angry," "vile," "psycho," "spittle-spewing" MSNBCer (video follows with transcript and commentary): As NewsBusters previously reported, Chris Matthews on Tuesday blamed conservative talk radio hosts Mark Levin and Michael Savage

An aide for Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann told the media yesterday that Bachmann is mulling a 2012 presidential bid and is headed to Iowa to talk about the possibility with activists. Bachmann is scheduled to headline a fundraiser for the Iowans for Tax Relief PAC on January 21st in Des Moines. For the most part, the national media isn’t taking the news seriously. LA Times politics columnist, Andrew Malcolm, blew off the idea by suggesting she is just raising her profile to in order to run for the U.S. Senate. Another opinion writer, Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post, wrote,...

While Chris Matthews’ special “Rise of the New Right” was nothing less than insulting to the intelligence, and pure propaganda, conservatives can learn something from it. If we do not clean our own house, somebody else will. There are many who march under the banner of conservative America, but who have their own agenda. They often keep this agenda to themselves until they are presented with the proper moment or event that provides them the opportunity of revealing themselves without risk of reprisal or censure. Take the example of the Flotilla fiasco. The incident occurred on May 31, 2010 and...

If MSNBC was looking to officially become the cable channel of the far left, it may have finally succeeded Wednesday night with the airing of Chris Matthews' documentary "The Rise of The New Right." MSNBC -- the network whose hosts routinely mock Tea Party activists as "Tea Baggers" -- aggressively promoted the documentary, with Matthews appearing on "Morning Joe" and "The Daily Rundown" Wednesday morning, as well as throughout the day. Matthews clearly believes, as "Hardball's" website says, "the new right is an emerging fact of life in 21st century." As such, it was time to launch a thorough analysis...

Chris Matthews, on Tuesday's Hardball, brought on two former CIA officials to discuss the latest terror attack, and the MSNBC host agreed with Tyler Drumheller that the most recent attacker was motivated by his house being foreclosed on and also agreed with Robert Baer who feared another attack could lead to "The Tea Party being strengthened" which could lead to "people blaming the White House for a situation it didn't create." Baer also hit Matthews' sweet spot of talking points when he went on to warn that the last successful terror attack "got us into a war in Iraq we...

Chris Matthews Thursday said that if the Senate doesn't use reconciliation -- or what some are calling the "Nuclear Option" -- to pass healthcare reform after it once again clears the House, it will be the end of the Democratic Party. Speaking with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC during the lunch recess of the President's heathcare summit, Matthews said: Do you have to get a bill passed before you fix it through reconciliation? Probably yes. Which means Speaker Pelosi is going to have to get 217 votes with the agreement that right after that happens and the President signs the Senate...

On Obama: "Going into a black country with so much exciting action, if that's not gonna be a really good thing for us in the world"...Matthews makes a fool out of himself yet again..(Video)

It is with the authority of knowledge that is MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that he declared of the ‘teabaggers’, “And they’re monochromatic right? … Every picture I see shows them to be. … Meaning they’re all white. All of them, every single one of them is white.” Here’s a news flash for ya, Chris… my son and I were there, as were many other black people. Maybe your crack staff at MSNBC failed to show you these pictures I (a black man)Sorry about having my back to you, Chris, but I was covering the event for my site and the New...

On the Sunday, December 13, syndicated Chris Matthews Show, as he ended the show with words of praise for Morgan Freeman’s latest film Invictus and its depiction of Nelson Mandela uniting blacks and whites in South Africa in the 1990s, host Matthews referred to "white tribalism" having been stirred up in America, and showed clips of anti-Obama protesters. Matthews: "In this world of ours today, it seems that any idiot – almost any idiot can rally the forces of tribalism, including white tribalism in this country. You can do it with a frown or a smile – easiest thing in...

Chris Matthews / Bishop Thomas Tobin Washington D.C., Nov 24, 2009 / 03:06 pm (CNA).- On Monday Bishop Thomas Tobin tangled with television pundit Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s “Hardball” about the relation between religion and politics as well as the legal status of abortion. Matthews’ comments, which charged that the bishop has overstepped his authority, were criticized as a “rant” and an “extended lecture.”Bishop Tobin, of the Diocese of Providence has been critical of Rhode Island U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy’s attacks on the Church for opposing abortion. Rep. Kennedy recently revealed that the bishop had asked him to refrain...

Rep. Patrick Kennedy’s dispute with Rhode Island Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin attracted national attention on Sunday when Kennedy said that Tobin had asked him to refrain from receiving communion because of his pro-abortion views. MSNBC television talk show host Chris Matthews debated Bishop Tobin today about abortion, law and Rep. Kennedy’s Holy Communion:

CHRISSY ON YOUTUBE.......unfreakingbelievable It's unclear if the shooting gave Chrissy a thrill up his leg.

On Wednesday’s Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews hosted a discussion with Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker and Salon’s Joan Walsh as the trio discussed Parker’s latest column, “A Tip for the GOP: Look Away,” in which she argues that the Republican party is hurt by being centered in the South with its history of racial politics. Matthews, who would later theorize that Sarah Palin will exploit white racism by visiting “cul de sacs of whitedom,” set up the segment by reading a line from Parker’s column which compares Palin to a white character in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking...

Listen to the cheers for the woman holding up her birth certificate and asking why the president won't share his. Listen to the boos when a Republican congressman asserts rather assuredly that the president of the United States, a Democrat, "is a citizen of the United States'' -- Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Honolulu, as the state of Hawaii has vouched with an electronic record, a point which his most severe critics will not concede. Listen to the Pledge of Allegiance break out. See Chris Matthews of MSNBC's Hardball question Rep. John Campbell, a Republican from California, about...

Yeah, seriously. When has that ever happened? Eight years of leftist caterwauling about the coming Bush dictatorship was not, of course, “fear, fear, fear,” but simply prudent, responsible small-R republicanism in response to an expansion of executive power. Now we’ve got a liberal nationalizing major banks and the American auto industry, with health care on the way, and the thought that this might mean a heavier federal hand over the population is an idea worthy of the X-Files. The tax burden alone to pay off our astronomical debt will mean significantly less freedom over how we spend our income; pile...

Here is the Cable News Race ratings for yesterday May 18th, showing Chris Matthews gets crushed at 5:00p.m. and 7:00p.m., I find it hard to believe this guy points out shrinking numbers in the GOP.. How anyone takes this clown seriously is anyone's guess..

RUSH: Now, I got some sound bites here with Chris Matthews and Mike Pence last night.  I want to play these for you because it's very instructive about what the liberal media is attempting to do to Republicans: portray Republicans as anti-science; portray Republicans as not believing in evolution, only believe in creationism; blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.  I play this Matthews stuff for you because I don't think it's just Matthews.  Normally I won't give a hoot, but I think this is a template that the left has come up with and that they're going to be...

New York (AP) -- MSNBC's Chris Matthews said he was surprised by the "peculiar stagecraft" of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's response to President Barack Obama's speech to Congress, leading him to quietly say "Oh God" as Jindal approached a microphone. The remark inspired a brief Internet guessing game about who had said it and questions about whether someone at MSNBC was mocking the Republican governor. Matthews' barely audible "Oh God" appeared to be a classic case of someone talking on TV without realizing their microphone was on, and potentially embarrassing to a network many Republicans already regard with suspicion because...

Not even a week after questioning whether Sarah Palin was literate, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Mattthews issued a warning: “Keep your eye on Palin.” He was reacting to the news today that the Alaska governor launched a political action committee called SarahPAC. The committee, a surprise to no one, allows her to stay in the game. She can use the money to offer support to like-minded candidates and donate to their campaigns. John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee have all formed their own PACs following their individual demises during the 2008 election. Matthews said tonight that history could lend...

On Thursday night's "Hardball," Chris Matthews played several clips from documentarian John Zeigler's interview with Sarah Palin, in which the former GOP VP candidate criticized Katie Couric and the press as a whole for bias against her but his guest, Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter, dismissed Palin's charges as "So lame," and called her "a Nixonian Nanook of the North." The following exchanges were aired on the January 8, edition of "Hardball": First up, after Matthews aired a clip of Palin criticizing the McCain campaign for forcing her to conduct continuing interviews with Couric, Alter called the Alaskan governor: "So lame."...

Based on her interview with Sen. Joe Biden, we may assume that WFTV, Orlando Anchor Barbara West: 1. Did not graduate from a school of communications, 2. Will never receive an award from the Society of Professional Journalists, 3. Is unlikely to be employed by The New York Times in the foreseeable future, and 4. Will soon be working with Joe the Plumber, installing bathroom fixtures. Silly rabbit -- Didn’t West know that tough questions are reserved for Republicans? Yet, there she was asking old leaden-tongued Joe how his running mate’s spread-the-wealth platform differed from standard Marxist redistributionism (from each...

During MSNBC's live coverage of Tuesday's presidential primary elections, after the speeches of Barack Obama and John McCain had aired, Chris Matthews expressed his latest over the top admiration for Obama's speaking skills as the MSNBC anchor admitted that Obama's speech created a "thrill" in his leg:

The "Hardball" host wanted to know how a feminist like me could support someone other than Hillary Clinton. Well, here's how. By Kate Michelman Feb. 8, 2008 | As the red light atop the camera went dark on Monday night, there was still much more I wanted to say to Chris Matthews, much more that I needed to say. So for the moment, my time on "Hardball" continues here. Knowing that I had just announced my support for Barack Obama for president after having earlier supported my old friend John Edwards, Matthews had me on his show Monday. His first...

Not being in the middle of it all gives me a rather unique advantage. That means I have no one to answer to for my views. I just watch things, and then I talk about them. In other words, this means I don’t have to lie about my biases in order to keep some false sense of objectivity alive for the gullible. In other words, I’m no Chris Matthews. Let me start then with the current batch of presidential hopefuls: Folks - meaning the current Republican candidates - you really need to watch out for Fred Thompson. None of you...

All right, a little grab bag for you here to polish off the highlights. It starts with what J-Pod calls the most “blatant act of obnoxious misbehavior during a debate” he’s ever seen and the long, awkward silence that ensues, then segues into the candidates’ dusting off some prefab zingers as the clock runs out. Fred did well here, especially in parrying Mitt’s “Law & Order” thrust. Like MK says, not a great performance but good enough overall. (VIDEO)

Fred Thompson may not yet have won the hearts and minds of Republican voters in the United States. But give the GOP presidential candidate this much - he knows who runs the government of Canada. "Harper. Prime Minister Harper," Thompson said, without hesitation Tuesday when asked during a Republican all-candidates presidential debate to name Canada's leader. That Thompson correctly answered the unexpected question saved him some mild embarrassment before an audience of Republican supporters at the CNBC debate in Dearborn, Mich. But it'll likely do little to quell larger doubts about a late-starting presidential campaign that has struggled to meet...

In the wake of the first candidates' debate among the Democratic contenders for the White House (4/26/07), many media outlets and commentators seemed annoyed that the so-called "second-tier" candidates are even bothering to run. Oddly, similar complaints about a surplus of GOP contenders in the first Republican debate (5/3/07) were hard to find in the corporate media. As FAIR noted recently (4/26/07), early election polls are a terrible way to predict the likely nominee. So using them to determine which candidates are viable and which campaigns are merely a nuisance is unwise. What's more, because the electoral process is about...

Last night Chris Matthews permitted the question, "What do you dislike about America?". A question that has never been asked before in a Presidential debate and I believe was not asked of the eight Democratic contenders. As a matter of fact, there were a number of blatantly democratically biased questions and I don't remember any blatantly republican questions of the democrats. For instance, the Republicans were asked about Republican corruption, but Hillary was not asked about Democratic corruption in Harry Reid real estate deals, William Jefferson's cold cash or her own issues with the Rose Law firm papers and the...

Chrissy had a crappy grin on his face this morning. He stated that the democrats were going to win big. BTW, this is the same Chris Matthews who predicted that Karl Rove would be frog marched over Valerie Plame. Real good track record there won't you say.

by Mark Finkelstein August 17, 2006 - 22:56 If I ever knew that Chris Matthews' brother Jim Matthews is the Republican candidate for Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania, I had forgotten. Chris manifestly has not, and on this evening's Hardball peevishly berated another Republican who had the audacity to bring the fact to his attention. After interviewing Dem Congressman Jack Murtha, Matthews had Murtha's Republican challenger Diana Irey on as a guest. Before getting into substance, Matthews testily alluded to the fact that Irey's campaign manager had sent Matthews a press release with proposed questions for Murtha. First on the list:...

MIDI - FOREVER IN BLUE JEANS Chris Matthews says no way...Chris Matthews says no way Chrissy says...that Hillary will never be the prez Some Democrats have certainly concurred...and Chrissy calls her Dukakis in a dress Hillary...will stop at nothing...everyone agrees She'll be triangulating, that's for sure...and Chrissy calls her Dukakis in a dress Bodies dead...she brings dread...what more needs to be said Look at her face with that demonic smile Get in her way...and you will pay Just you wait for those FBI files Chrissy says...that Hillary will never be the prez Some Democrats have certainly concurred...and Chrissy calls...

I wish I'd taped Chris Matthews tonight. His defense of Robert KKK Byrd's Nazi comment literally had me laughing out loud. He was INDIGNANT that Byrd was not getting a pass on this. It was so OBVIOUS that he was not comparing Republicans to Nazis but was merely comparing parliamentary procedures. Topping it off was his sit-down with Katrina Vanden Heuvel, who, when asked if what we see in the Middle East was a result of our war in Iraq, actually kept a straight face as she said there were MANY reforms going on "under the radar" and that the...

MIDI - BETTY DAVIS EYES Out of the hospital...he's getting near Exciting as could be...BJ Clinton soon would appear He had been getting giddy...and his undies were wet Billgasm on the air...did that really happen...you bet Ratings stinking...his share shrinking I would do him, he was thinking He's a lefty...he will always be He's shilling without blinking If you have gay thoughts, we will say you have Chrissy Matthews eyes Yes, Billy turns him on...he makes him hot Almost out of control...he wanted to see what he's got He had his kneepads ready...he was all set to go He...

For Republicans, this is going to be a tough and nasty week to put up with TV news coverage. Just for starters, Tom Brokaw signed off the NBC Nightly News on Sunday by comparing the convention's slate of moderate speakers to a "con game." I'm sure we'll see a massive rise in Fox viewership this week as conservatives look to steer around all the media's double standards, while the lapdogs in Boston are transformed into attack dogs in New York. It won't take too long to remember that the networks have a history of egregious bias at convention time. (For...

MIDI - RAG DOLL Saw-aw-aw-awft balls...that's what he lobs to DemocRATS Saw-aw-aw-awft balls...no one can say "Imagine that" Yes, Chrissy Matthews cannot hide it anymore He shills for DemocRATS like he's a two-bit whore He throws softballs...real softballs It comes shining through...Chris, STFU! Saw-aw-aw-awft balls...that's what he lobs to DemocRATS But then he interviewed a lady named Michelle He went berserk and then he really gave her hell No more softballs...no more softballs It comes shining through...Chris, STFU! Saw-aw-aw-awft balls...that's what he lobs to DemocRATS Saw-aw-aw-awft balls...no one can say "Imagine that" The emp-eror has been exposed And there...

By James Zogby   June 26, 2002, 07:34 AM  - Within a matter of a few weeks two of the United States top congressional leaders appeared separately on the same television program to let the country know how little they knew or cared about the realities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was on May 1 that Texas Republican Congressman Richard Armey, appeared on "Hardball", a nationally televised political program hosted by Chris Mathews. Here is part of their exchange: Mathews: “OK. Let’s talk about the realities over there. There’s a fight between the Arabs and the Israelis over who...

<p>Washington -- Bill Clinton has the two traits most needed for a Mideast peace deal: optimism and an instinct for compromise. The former American president envisions the Israelis and the Palestinians someday living as actual neighbors.</p> <p>Moreover, he sees a necessary but practical way we Americans can make it happen.</p>